The Mail has this short article, which enlightens the soul...
Some years ago, a friend entered our room at the office laughing his head off!
He'd seen a car with the number PHA 111C...
I always wanted a 'normal number plate' which would reflect my yearning for an earlier time of life, when we all took number plates seriously, and indeed, often camped out on the roadside, making lists of all the numbers of vehicles which passed by! Well, it beat watching videos on YouTube back then!
I once saw a number on a police car in Eastbourne which was my dad's old number - RAP 138! I waited for ages to tell the cop, but he never appeared!
Car, van and lorry numbers these days don't have the character of the older ones, like anything the government touches! Tradition gets shoved away to make things easier for the computers which were made to make things easier for the increased numbers of people employed to flick over the keys on them and help plod to identify the culprits and then report them, via computer to - oh sod it - who knows...
3 comments:
Better keep an eye out for the number SOD 1 T.
I miss the old numbering system which allowed you to know where a vehicle and probably the driver came from.
It raised my spirits to see a number from my home neuk.
You're right, DH, it was always intriguing to see where your car came from!
RAP 138 was an East Sussex plate, while Hastings was DY! Oxford was UD, as we had a Mini with that number! Brecon was EU - back to school days...
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